Found by the Lycan King by Natalie Winter

Chapter 25

Zenovia

Chapter 25

The next few days passed in a blur and the day of the ball was upon us. I spent the entire day running around, setting up the tables, lighting, and flower arrangements while Maria had given me a team of servants to work under me.

Ever since my odd conversation with Callahan that day, he had been avoiding me. The Lycan King busied himself with work and only stepped out of his office to take a shower.

I think he was also eating and sleeping there.

I wanted to talk to him and maybe clear the confusion but it felt awkward for me to approach him directly.

Even at the dinner or lunch table, he was missing and sometimes I had food alone or with Maria.

My friend, Elijah, was missing as well. I heard from Drusilla that he had been sent to invite all the alphas to the ball as the Lycan King was definitely not going to send out invites.

1 frowned a little but decided to focus on work. The evening was already setting in and I saw shades of orange and yellow on the horizon as the moon began peeking out of the clouds.

It was going to be a full moon today.

And, I had the most dreamy decor set up imaginable. Instead of the usual roses, I decided to go with orchids that were hung at regular intervals through the huge canopy of metal and wood frames that served as the venue.

I had also decided to ask the gardeners to put on some mistletoe at cozy corners for couples to spend some quality time and be in a private space.

All in all, I was too happy with the way the venue looked. I smiled wistfully at the preparations before I saw the wide gates of the mansion creak.

The guests were beginning to come in.

I looked down at myself. I was dressed in overalls as I had been jumping up and down my heels, all day.

Not wanting anybody to spot me like this, I hid behind the thick bushes as I saw the first few guests come in.

There were men and women dressed in finery, their poses confident and their attire demanding respect.

Handsome men. I had never seen before, stepped out of their cars as Beta Matteo rushed forward to greet them.

He passed by me and I only raised an eyebrow to ask, “Where is the King?”

Matteo mouthed, “Working” while adjusting his tie and running in the direction of the guests.

I frowned and my gaze slipped to the window of the King’s office. The lights were on and the blinds were drawn.

step outside and attend the event even for a

pecking through the trees that hid me as a group

make up perfect and

out here. Everybody was looking around at the place. with bright

blonde commented

is the

feet away from me, adjusting their

ears to listen to what they were saying about him.

have been trying so hard to get a glimpse of him but he just

at that line.

heard a rumor that he took in a breeder. I believe the curse is really making him

her hands into fists and did a little dance of excitement, “That is why we are having

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a lock of

going to do that, Amy?” The curly haired girl asked and Amy, the blonde girl, fluttered

“By using this.”

in his drink and seduce him. Then when he has marked me, he

her eyebrows as her friend shrieked, “You are a naughty girl”

“Everything is fair in love and war. And,

I could say anything. I was

was free to choose any of the girls as his mate. I frowned a litle and shoved the little feeling of

no idea Callahan was so popular among the girls or even the men. I sneaked through the bushes,

would turn out to be their mate but nobody seemed to give them

face further fell. There was no chance in hell that he would even look at me.

him. Had I not planned to run out of the mansion while

one of the

are you

a few feet away from me, her hands on her hips.

not know I was invited” I answered truthfully. Well,

but also wolfless. No man would want me because

forward and pointed

You arranged everything. You are a guest

looked at

something decent or should I

smile. “I…I will happily watch the event from my room’s

find my mate here so there was no point staying here. Plus, I needed to get off my back, if I wanted to

her

in your room and